# Test for differences in frequencies in one group

I am afraid that is a very beginner's question, but search didn't help me (or I didn't know the terms to use).

I have a corpus of sentences which are coded for their word order (like “subject first” or “object first”). The following is an (imagined) illustration:

Sentence WordOrder
1        Subject-Object
2        Subject-IndirectObject-Object
3        Object-Subject
4        Subject-Object-IndirectObject
…        …

Frequencies:
Subject-Object: 2.300
Subject-IndirectObject-Object: 30
Object-Subject: 280
Subject-Object-IndirectObject: 560


I would like to test whether the differences in the frequency the various word order are significant. For instance, is Subject-Object significantly more common than Object-Subject?

However, I am not sure what to use, since I do not have different groups, so that a chi^2 test doesn't work (if I understand it correctly).

Is there a test for this or do I have to “construct” different groups (e.g. according to when the sentence was uttered or by whom)?

• Do you mean that, for example, you want to know if subject-object is less common than object-subject? Aug 26 '16 at 8:12
• @Ian_Fin Yes, exactly, sorry if that was not clear enough. I edit my question to make that clearer. Aug 26 '16 at 12:28